Train-order holder and deliverer.



G. L. SHOWALTER.

TRAIN ORDER HOLDER AND DELIVERER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25. 1915.

1,169,003. Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. D. c.

G. L. SHOWALTER. TRAIN ORDER HOLDER AND DE LIVERER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY25.1915.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH Co.. WASHINGTON, D. c,

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TRAIN-03213153 HOLDER AND DELIVERER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Application filed May 25, 1915. Serial No. 30.4.02.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GILBERT L. SHOWALTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Geneva, in the county of Adams and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and the supporting member is constructed from a single piece of wire bent into the required shape.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure l is a side elevation of the improved device; Fig. 2 is an edge view of the upper portion of the device; Fig. 3 is a plan view; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a holding device supporting a plurality of order receiving hoops.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device includes an endless ring or hoop 10 formed of any required size and having the sides cut out for a short distance, as indicated at 11. Attached to the reduced portion 11 of the hoop, is an order support, represented as a whole at 12 and formed of resilient wire and adapted to support the train order in position upon the hoop. The hoop holding portion of the device is formed of a single piece of wire and compr ses co-acting arched loops formed with spaced sides 13-14t and 1516 and curved to conform substantially to about one-half of the hoop 10. The loop members are curved outwardly at the terminals, as shown at 17-18 to facilitate the insertion of the hoop. The sides of the holding loops approach each other adjacent to the outturned portion 1718,asindicated at 19-20,

the loops thus bearing with considerable force against the sides of the hoop at the points 19-20, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 8. The sides of the holding loops are curved outwardly intermediate their ends, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, so that the hoop 10 is engaged by the loops only at the points 19-20.

t their inner ends, the sides 1315 are entwisted, as indicated at 21 and extend by the entwisted portion at right angles to the holding loops, the entwisted portion forming a stock to which a supporting handle 22 is attached in any suitable manner. The entwisted portion, including the handle, may be of any required length, and it is not de sired to limit the invention in any manner in this respect.

The sides 14-16 of the holding loops are coiled about the entwisted portion 21 at the inner ends of the holding loops, as indicated at 23. The sides 1.314c and 1516 necessarily approach each other at the point where the coils 23 are produced, but the coils are located at some distance from the lower side of the hoop, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the holding loops engage the hoop 10 only at the points 1920. By this means, the hoop, while being supported with suflicient grip to retain its position, is easily detached when required.

A plurality of hoops will be furnished with each holding device as will be obvious and one of the holding devices and a plurality of the hoops will be furnished to each engineer and to each station agent. At the stations, a supporting device, illustrated in Fig. a, will be employed to support a plurality of hoops.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a device of the class described, a holder for a train order hoop including branching loops, each formed with sides diverging between the ends and curved to cor-' respond to the curvature of the hoop and in transverse alinement with the same, said loops contacting with the hoop only near their outer terminals, the intermediate curved portions of the sides operating to prevent abnormal lateral movement of the hoop.

2. In a device of the class described, a holder for a train order hoop including branching loops, each formed with spaced sides and contacting With the hoop only sides reduced, an order holder formed froln near their outer terminals, one side of each a section of resilient Wire bent into U-shape 100p being entwisted With'one side of the with the terminals attached to the reduced 10 other loop to form a handle receiving stock portions of the hoop and With coils in the 5 and the other sides of the loops coiled sides intermediate the ends.

around the entwisted stock. In testimony whereof I atfix my signature.

3. A train order hoop having its opposite GILBERT -L. -SHOWALTER. [1 s.]

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